3.4. How many people receive Workers' Compensation?

An estimated 96.1 million employees were insured by Workers' Compensation in 1993. From 1983 to 1993, disability compensation payments grew from $10.4 million to $23.4 million while compensation payments to survivors rose only slightly from $1.5 million to $1.9 million over the same period.

Employers' self-insurance payments and medical and hospitalization costs tripled in the ten years between 1983 and 1993. Employers' self insurance payments rose from $3.2 million to $9.9 million while medical and hospitalization costs rose from $5.7 million to $17.5 million.

Workers' Compensation disability payments more than doubled between 1983 and 1993.

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